... choice of creatures inhabiting this land; There is a barbaric, man-like creature dubbed the Yahoo and the civilized, good-natured horse-like creature, the Houyhnhnms. "Upon the whole, I never beheld in all my Travels so disagreeable an Animal, or one against which I naturally conceived so strong an Antipathy" ... (IV,193). His opinion of the Yahoos contrasts with his opinion of the Houyhnhnms. The Houyhnhnms think Gulliver is another Yahoo capable of outstanding intellect, but Gulliver is offended that they want to classify him as a Yahoo. "I expressed ... only able to satirize on poli...

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... third adventure, he arrives as a stranger at the strange land of Laputa, a floating island. Finally, on Gulliver's fourth adventure he arrives again as a stranger in a land full of horses or Houyhnhnms and Yahoos. These four lands take the reader on an exciting and adventuresome journey through Gulliver's many trials and strange situations. The stranger in a strange land motif follows Gulliver as ... , and morals through the continuance of this satire in Brobdingnag. As Gulliver continues his travels he travels through the floating island of Laputa and finally he comes to a land of Houyh...

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... a degenerate who has been backsliding for generations from his original nobility and strength." The Yahoos are morally foul, intellectually null and totally irrational. In contrast the Houyhnhnms are rational, intelligent and good "The wise and virtuous Houyhnhnms..have no name for this vice (pride) in their language" (4.12). Book four describes the idea of the Utopia, however the cruel joke is that ... ...

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... infallible and see, almost perfect. In the final part of the novel Swift satirizes about human kinds brutality and cruelty towards one another and he wants to instruct humans. The houyhnhnms are our role models for our behavior as Swift describes and he states, " their ways of life, friendship, benevolence, order, traditions, reasons, and knowledge are advantageous to human kind." (245 ... ...

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